Collection Overview

This collection consists of biographical and genealogical information, corresondence, and financial and legal documents of the Critz family living in Patrick County, Virginia. The bulk of the correspondence relates to Haman Critz's participation in the Civl War. Later letters detail labour troubles and race relations occuring during Reconstruction. The financial and legal documents cover land sales, purchase of enslaved individuals, and tobacco accounts.

Content Description In 1916, using a partially used company ledger book, A.D. Reynolds set out to record his memoir in a series of sketches, anecdotes, and recorded memories. These sketches were written over an eight year period, between 1916 and 1924. Reynolds documents growing up on a tobacco plantation in Virginia, his role in the Confederate Army during the Civil War, and his life as a tobacco manufacturer. The recollections themselves document the period between 1862 and 1924. Included among the sketches...